Like a room full of schoolchildren, the delegates at the UN  Climate Talks in Bali resorted to boos, jeers, and various other public embarrassment techniques to get the United States to join the ranks of Chicken Littles and socialists on the human-induced global warming issue.
Paula Dobriansky, the United States delegate who managed to make it […]

DETROIT (AP) - Union workers at St. Paul’s Ford  Ranger plant will get a year’s reprieve. UAW members have overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with Ford that keeps the St. Paul plant open into 2009. It was slated to close next year.

Apparently companies are now in business simply to provide people with jobs. 
People forget […]

This writers strike has me very irritated, but it isn’t because I’m missing any TV shows.  I don’t watch television.  I’m angry at the writers, and the millions of people who believe that these  entitlement-thinking individuals actually deserve what they are demanding, while others who depend on the production of these shows for jobs are […]

The Wisconsin lawmakers have passed a ’short-term’ budget, and with it, a $1 per pack cigarette tax.  Which got me thinking…
Doyle and the rest of the Wisconsin Democrats have catered to  ‘Smoke Free Wisconsin’, who urged them to pass the cigarette tax to encourage people to “stop smoking”.  As the logic stands, if you tax something, […]

Tonight, I watched Don Shelby’s “In the Know” segment on WCCO.com.  Don decided to use the high price of “Hannah Montana” tickets to attack the free market, while pretending to be a ’stern’ advocate of parental control:
“First, if your child won’t stop whining ’til you cough up  the money for the ‘Hannah Montana’ tickets, you’ve […]

Over the past several decades, the word ‘greedy’ has been used mainly to describe companies attempting to make a profit.  The adjective has become so synonymous with corporate America’s quest to be profitable and grow their wealth, that it’s safe to say that we have lost our ability to identify other individuals or groups of people as ‘greedy’. 
I’m […]

I received this email from Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind in my inbox today:
Dear Friends,
Students are graduating from college with more debt than ever before. Over the last five years, college costs have grown by nearly 40%. Not only does this place an enormous burden on recent graduates, it also prevents many young people from attending college […]

Apparently Representative Lasee out of Green Bay has ruffled some feathers in the Parasite…er…I mean Trial Lawyer community.  Some people have even gone so far as to tell us what ‘great things’ trial lawyers have done:
Tort lawyers are responsible for, among other things, getting asbestos out of our buildings, cigarettes out of our bars and restaurants, […]